Browsing by Subject "hippocampus"
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Debilitating age-related cognitive decline is a major health concern today and is associated with annual health care costs of billions of dollars. Although extensive research has focused on cognitive impairment and drug ...
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(Frontiers, 2013-12-13)After fear conditioning, presenting the conditioned stimulus (CS) alone yields a context-specific extinction memory; fear is suppressed in the extinction context, but renews in any other context. The context-dependence of ...
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(2009-05-15)Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying the extinction of maladaptive behaviors has become increasingly relevant. Extinction, or the reduction of a response due to lack of reinforcement, is believed to be “new ...
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(2017-12-08)Exposure therapy for stress- and anxiety-related disorders is very effective, but fear return after treatment is not uncommon. During extinction, repeated exposure to a conditioned stimulus (CS) gradually decreases the ...